Pressure points

I suppose everyone has weird habits or quirks.  I certainly have my share.  One of the things I have done for as long as I can remember is work pressure points on my body and not in the way you would conventionally think.  I squeeze together, pinch, bite or rub parts of my body together.  For example, many times throughout the day, without thought, I will push on the area of my fingers on the side of my nails.  I just push.  The sensation is a hard to describe.  I often will rub the inside of my thumb with the top joint in my index finger, again just kind of pressing and grinding the area together.  I’ve done it so long that I have callouses in those areas. 

Sometimes I will bite the inside of my cheek, on purpose.  It hurts but feels good at the same time.  I actually have been making a conscious effort to curtail this particular quirk ever since a dental hygienist years ago told me the practice could lead to mouth cancer.

I even have a pressure point on my face that I will work sometime, right at the top of my cheekbones, almost eye high.  I will take some sort of fabric and press and grind it against the bone.  Again it hurts but it doesn’t at the same time.  It is a very strange behavior if I stand back and observe myself.  I have no idea what it came from but it has become so ingrained in my state of being I do it constantly without even knowing it.

On Tuesday after work I did a bunch of non-impact cardio at the gym.  On Wednesday I had deep aching in my knees that let me know whatever is wrong is going to be sticking around for awhile.  It is rather depressing to regress after I thought I had cleared the hurdle and was back and able to resume running and/or volleyball.  Now everything is touch and go again. Damn it.

We are on the home stretch before Ali’s big race.  She has over 170 people pre-registered already with a couple days to go, a great number.  It is going to be a very hectic 3 days, there is so much to get done.  I’m proud of her though for tying it all together.  Even though she is somewhat like me in her general dislike of dealing with people, when she does, she is a very good communicator and leaves people with a very good impression.